Networking and Audax

As Audax does not use Wicd anymore, it configures itself to use wired eth0 by default. Even when eth0 is the most common interface address, you may find that you cannot access wired network at all regardless. The most likely reason is that your interface name is something else (eth1). Follow the simple steps below to reconfigure Audax network settings.

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and the two commands should look like these:

Restarting the network:

sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart sudo ifdown eth1 sudo ifup eth1

Note. Even though Audax is GPL and as such does not distribute non-free WiFi drivers you can customize the above entries to concern wlan devices like wlan1 or wlan0 – after you have installed the needed non-free firmware first.

If you choose to use non-free firmwares or for example Adobe Flash, first add the repositories needed.

Open Audax sources.list file.

sudo geany /etc/apt/sources.list.d/audax.list

Under sections #Software and #Security add lines like contrib and non-free. For example,

deb http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian wheezy main contrib non-free

#Updates and #Audax repository only contain main.

Once you are done, save the file and exit. Update package sources by typing:

sudo apt-get update

To install many (possibly needed?) non-free firmwares for network devices you can copy and paste the command below to a terminal.